Into the mainstream

Shifting authenticities in art

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2469296
AutoresSally Price (0000-0002-5722-8458, William & Mary, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen34
Número4
Páginas603-620
Fecha de publicación2007-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.2007.34.4.603
OpenAlexW2158022017
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas5

When artists who were once dubbed "primitive" find themselves operating in a freshly expanded environment, with an international clientele, new materials to work with, access to urban exhibition spaces, the counsel of culture brokers, and options for travel abroad, their response can include highly creative innovations in both the forms they produce and the interpretations they offer of their work. The new environment can sometimes even lead to adjustments in their vision of the origins and meanings of their artistic heritage. In this article, I trace the recent history of art made by Maroon men in the Guianas, following its mutation from a form of expression for internal consumption, largely as gifts for wives and lovers, to a commodity sold in an external market

Aesthetics · Art · Commodity · Consumption (sociology · Economics · Exhibition · Mainstream · Market economy · Maroon · Political science · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Visual arts · Work (physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law